Twin Cities R!SE
- Primary Cause
- Employment
- Secondary Cause
- Education
At TCR, we assist individuals in poverty on the path to long-term and stable employment. Our work skills training prepares participants with the skills they’ll need on the job. And through internship opportunities, job search assistance, and employment placement services, we work with participants to find meaningful employment. Our coaches provide one-on-one support, partnering with participants for a year after they’ve landed their new jobs. We focus on long term results – with 81% of our graduates staying at their jobs after one year, our 12-month job retention rates are nearly twice the national average.
Our curriculum goes beyond teaching – through our signature Personal Empowerment program, we provide transformative change, fostering self-confidence and self-reliance.
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Along with our comprehensive, work skills training program, Twin Cities R!SE offers:
Reentry Connect, a program designed to improve the long-term educational and workforce prospects of adults who have been previously incarcerated. Participants receive personal empowerment training and work with a Reentry Connect case manager to develop their career goals and pathways.
Reentry Connect participants have an one year recidivism rate of 11% compared to the national average rate of 56%.
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Before Victor came to Twin Cities R!SE, he was homeless, or as he would describe it, couch hopping, staying with friends and looking for work. However, he was was job searching without a phone, a mailing address, or transportation. One of his friends told him about TCR on a Friday, and by Monday, he had enrolled.
" The Personal Empowerment classes were most helpful to me. They taught me how to own my choices in life and to be confident."
Eight months ago, Victor began working as a high level office coordinator,a position that he would have never applied for without his Twin Cities R!SE training. He now has an apartment to call his own, reliable transportation, and is taking on-line college courses! Victor is earning a family sustaining wage, with full benefits and continually working towards higher goals.
"TCR was the fast track to improving my circumstances. There are so many people that need the support and services that Twin Cities R!SE offers." ~ Victor, TCR Grad
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Along with the opportunities listed below, we are always seeking classroom volunteers and tutors, along with workshop facilitators.
Group volunteer opportunities are also available for mock interviews, business clothing drives, and interview kit assembly.
Want to help? Skill-based volunteers are needed in the following categories!
- Graphic Design
- Marketing
- Web Development
- Fundraising
- Evaluation
- Legal Compliance
- Other
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Suggested Donations
- I want to provide shuttle transportation for TCR participants to attend essential job training and Personal Empowerment sessions! ($25.00)
- I want to fund a session of paid internships for participants to earn hands on experience. ($75.00)
- I want give 2 participants weekly one on one career coaching. ($150.00)
Funding Needs
Jobs are achieved and maintained with your support!
Twin Cities R!SE is dedicated to serving those with the greatest barriers to employment, those who lack the educational, technical, and life skills to rise out of poverty.
Dollars invested in TCR help us serve more individuals and families, with job training, one on one coaching, and the essential personal empowerment skills needed to succeed!
